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Ali Yalçin; Selma Güleç – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2024
The activity-based social studies teaching is a learning process which applies activities prepared according to knowledge, skills, values and achievements and makes students actively participate. One of the most important goals of the social studies course is the activity-based teaching process, which is one of the ways to raise effective,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Social Environment, Grade 5, Secondary School Students
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Vuopala, Essi; Guzmán Medrano, Diego; Aljabaly, Mariam; Hietavirta, Dora; Malacara, Lourdes; Pan, Chunxiao – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2020
This study investigated students' perspectives on working and studying within a maker culture context. Participants were fifth-grade students (n = 18) in a Finnish elementary school who worked on a fabrication project for five days. The data consisted of student questionnaires (n = 18), group presentations (n = 5) and the final fabrication…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Student Satisfaction
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Vavreck, Sarah; Esposito, Judy – Journal of School Counseling, 2012
The focus of this paper is on responses from fifth grade peer tutors who were trained to use child-centered play therapy language during tutoring sessions with kindergarteners. The focus of this project was to identify academic and social/emotional benefits of participating in the program. Results indicated that participation in the program…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Play Therapy, Peer Teaching, Grade 5
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Strait, Jean R. – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
What causes students to leave school? According to Azzam (2007), over 47% of students in the United States who drop out of school reported they did so because school was boring and irrelevant to their life situation. What can schools and teachers do to encourage students to stay in school? One possible solution may be to look at experiential…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Public Speaking, Skill Development
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
National 4-H Council, 2005
This final guide in the series is designed to assist in one's role of helper for youth interested in the dog project. These learn-by-doing activities can be adapted for families, classrooms, dog project meetings, after school programs, camps or other settings. In this Helper's Guide, one will find helpful information about characteristics of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods